Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 9:10 AM- 10:05 AM, Central Classroom 0258

                                            

Instructor: Ovidiu Costin



Office Math Tower (MW) 404
email costin "at" math.ohio-state.edu
Office hours: Tue 2:30-3:20 and by appointment.
Calculus, M. Spivak, Fourth Edition, chapters 1-15, 18-20, 22-24





Tentative midterm schedule:

Midterm 1, Monday September 24. Covers Chapters 1-5
Midterm 2, Monday November 5. Covers Chapters 6-20

Final exam (comprehensive, all material in the course.):
Wednesday Dec 12 8:00am-9:45am; please check the official OSU final exam schedule

Material  covered to date: (Oct. 25, 2012): Chapters 1-4+Appendices to Chap.4, Chap. 5, 6; 7,8,22,9,10,11+Appendix,12,13,14,15,18,19,20,23,24,[25,26]
topics in brackets [...] are not required for the final examination.


Some interesting polar plots. See if you can "explain" the shapes.  Polar plots

Limits: graphs we discussed in class.  Limits

More about the real numbers. Extra credit exercises.  (P13')

The function in Fig 15 .  (Fig 15)

Smaller window for the function in Fig 15 . Can you explain the apparent lines?   (Fig 15, detail)

"How would the world like look if only rational numbers existed"? Extra credit problems

The function exp(-1/x^2) and it derivatives pdf file

Taylor approximations of exp(-x) for large x (x=20) figure

11/27/2012  Review questions

12/1/2012 More review problems

The  Stirling formula

(11/24/2012) I will start posting review problems on the homework web page.



Every day after lecture you should solve the homework problems (click here). The list of problems is updated daily.


Grading policy

For the final score I will (roughly) use the formula

s=0.35 · homework +0.15 · midterm1+0.15 · midterm2+0.35 · final

and the final grade is (also, approximately):

 A if s∈[90,100], A- if s∈[82,90), B+ if s∈[74,82), B if s∈[66,74), B- if s∈[58,66), C+ if s∈[50,58), C if s∈[42,50), C- if s∈[34,42), D+ if s∈[26,34), D if s∈[18,26), D- if s∈[10,18), E if s∈[0,10).